Iron County register., 1887-05-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

semDled In st. Louis on the 11th.
BREvET MAJoR-GENERAL HENRY f.
CLARKE, United States army. retired,
died in Washington on the 10th, in the
sixty-seventh year of his age.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has ap-
pointed Thomas NJ. d. Tate as Nation al
bank examiner for North Carolina and
Virginia. Mr.. Tate is a member of the
North Carolina Legislature.
GENERAL BoULANGER's mobilization bill
causes much uneasiness at Berlin. The
North German Gazette says it is of much
greater Importance than appears at firs st
sight.
AARON F. FLETCHER STEVENS died at his
house in Nashua, n. H, on the 10th, from
kidney difficulty, arising from wounds re-
ceived in battle before Petersburg.
On the evening of the 9th, at Fort Glib
son, 1. T., two soldiers-Joe Adams and J.
E. Glidden-were drowned in the Grand
| river. They were out seining for fish and
got caught in swift current and were
swept under. Only one of the bodies has
been recovered.
THE Maryland Masonic centennial be-
gan at Baltimore on the 11th.
THE Missouri Legislature convened in
extra session on the 11th.
Both houses of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature passed the High License bill on the
| 11th.
JAMES W. HYATT, of Connecticut, has
| been appointed United States Treasurer,
vice Jordan, resigned.
| MoNTRosE won the Kentucky Derby
race at Louisville on the 11th, Jim Gore
second.
GREAT excitement prevailed in London
| ON the 18th on an unfounded report that
Mr.. ParneIl was dead.
| Rev. DR.. TIMoTHY c. PITKIN, an emi-
4 H. ha1 Il
at Detroit, Mich.
| THE Illinois House of Representatives,
on the 11th, killed the proposed constitu
| tional convention.
| EDITOR O'BRIEN arrived in Canada on
| the 11th and opened his campaign in
Mon treal against Lord Lansdowne.
| THE Pacific Railway Inves tigation Com.
| mission has called on Senator Mcpherson
to unbosom himself
| SECRETARY BAYARD sent a telegram to
Minister Manning at the City of Mexico on
| the 11th asking of Mexico mercy for the
| condemned Nogales officers.
| CAPTAIN WILLIAMS of the American ship
Occidental is reported killed at sea by a
| sailor, whom he assaulted with a belay-
| ing pin, and was in return stabbed to the
heart.
| IT is understood that President and Mrs.
Cleveland will spend two months or more
at Oak View before going on their early
| autumn jaunts.
| CONTINENTAL Europe is much exercised
| over the proposed German increase OF
| tariff duties on grain.
| HAGGERTY, the second Panhandle
brakeman tried at Pittsburgh. Pa, fol-
robbing freight cars, was convicted on the
| 18th. j. F. Wright, another brakeman,
entered plea of guilty and was remand.
ed for sentence.
| FIRE at New Boston, n. H, on the 11th,
| destroyed the town house, one church,
! two chapels, one store and shop and seven
dwellings. Loss, $4,000; insurance, S15,-
| 000
CALVIN GRAVES, who was convicted at
Calias, Me-, for shooting and killing
| Game-W ardens Niles and Hill, was SEN
| fenced, on the 18th, to imprisonm ent at
| hard labor for life The verdict was mur-
der in the second degree,
| FIRE on the 18th cons umed Shaw Bros
| tannery at Grand Lake Stream, Me-, also
saw-mill, dry-house, roll loft, an immense
building that covered the watts, and TO- 900
sides of leather; loss, Sl25, 900.
| THE international horticultural exhibit
| ton at Dresden has proved splendid and
success sful show.
No official information has reached the
| Department of State respecting the re-
ported refusal of the Halifax authorities
to permit an American schooner to pro.
| cure provisions. 1t is thought that the
report must be inaccurate.
| MARTIN BOUT, while plowing on his farm
near Michigan City, Ind, on the 11th, ex-
ploded dynamite bomb which had been
placed there by unknown parties. His
arm was blown off and he was otherwise
terribly mangled. He will hardly re-
| cover.
| TtJu of hn t,,%n hos n
| rected the Commissioner of the General
| Land Office to appraise and dispose of by
pu bile auction the land of the abandoned
military reservation of Fort Brooke, Fla,
| except the tracts of 160 acres settled upon
| prior to January 1, 1884
| j. B. FRUCHIER, an American citizen,
who left San Francisco last October to
| visit France, was seized on his arrival
| there, imprisoned, denied counsel and
| forced to serve in the French army. He
| is now in the Seventh regiment of the line
| in the garrison of Caliors.
| BISMARCK will go to Varzin at Whitsun-
| tide, as he feels assured of the passage of
| the Spirit bill, the section of the Centre
promising to support the measure, be.
sides all Nationals and Conservatives.
The sheep-shearing contest was the
| leading feature of the wool gro wers' con-
! ventlon in st. Louis on the 18th.
| lHE Uerhon ClOSeU Guetr COnV6n-
| ton at st. Louis on the 18th, and fol lowed
| it with river excursion.
| THE trouble between England and Hayti
has been adjusted, and Hayti retains Tor
| tugas island.
| IT is denied at the White House that an
extra session of Congress has been deter
mined upon.
THE convention of Western gas men in
| st. Louis was closed on the 18th with the
annual election of officers, and was fol
| lowed by banquet in the evening.
| IT is given out in London that Balfour
will resign as Chief Secretary for Ireland
Immediately upon the passage of the Irish
| Grimes bill.
| PARTICULARS reached San Francisco on
| the 18th of the sinking of the steamer
Benton, March %, off Malacca, by which
| one hundred and fifty persons lost their
| lives
| THE reported execution of the Mexican
| officers condemned for the Nogales Incl
dents is officially denied.
| HARRY GoRMAN, a sailor, was killed a
Cleveland, O., on the 18th, by a desperate
character named Higgins.
THE Comptroller of Currency has author.
lied the First National Bank of Merrill,
Wis, to begin business, with capital OF
s5O,OO0
MAYOR PARSONS of Rochester, N. Y, has
instructed the chief of police to prohibit
| the John L. Sullivan com bination from
giving an exhibition there on the 10th.
NJ. JEAN BAPTIsTE JOSEPH DIEUDoNNH
| BoUssINGAULT, learned French chemist
and scientific agriculturist and mem
Der of the Institute, is dead. He was
eighty-five years old.
IT is stated that Mr.. Hyatt, the new
| United States Treasurer, was one of the
original mugwumps. He left the Repub-